In 1790, President Washington delivered his first State of the Union address to Congress.

In 1815, US forces led by General Andrew Jackson defeated the British in the Battle of New Orleans, the closing engagement of the War of 1812.

In 1935, rock ’n’ roll legend Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo, Miss.

In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson declared a ‘‘War on Poverty’’ in his State of the Union address.

In 2011, Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) was shot when a gunman opened fire as she met with constituents in Tucson; six people were killed, 12 others injured. (Jared Lee Loughner has pleaded not guilty to 49 charges.)